I won't spoil it if you aren't finished, but I think Magnus does some pretty dumb things in that book. It's a running theme that Primarchs are generally mentally stunted to some extent, which is fitting given that they're big muscle men designed to fight war good. I've been meaning to read Burning of Prospero, it covers Russ' side of the story, and it's written by Abnett, so it'll be decent at least.
Normally I would agree, but considering this is YouTube their business relies on parasocial relationships. The audience needs to believe that they aren't a consumer, and the Channel a business, but that everyone is super friends with each other irl. It drives engagement which is in turn profitable. Viewers are invested in the personal lives of content creators to a dangerous degree. They are clearly aware of this, and as weird and gay as it is, that's the nature of the business.
There's no actual conflict here. It's a setting. There's a whole spectrum of agri-worlds like there are ranges of civilized worlds and feral worlds.
A very good book (it's by Abnett, duh), but starts reaaaaly slowly and you get to know the wolfs part of the story by the prism of the story protagonist, Kaspar Hawser, a historian turned skjald. Russ shows up by the tail end of the book and you do not see his perspective either, only his thoughts, that he presents to the main character, the Burning is also told from Kaspar's perspective and the tytanic duel is, sadly, summed up in one paragraph. Still, the story told is interesting and the writing is great, lots of descriptions of Terra during the final years of the unification, life on Fenris, wolfs customs and the mystery of Kaspar's role in this story, I would still recommend it, even, if you were more interested in the Astartes perspective, mirroring the one in A Thousand Sons.
Come on, we know he was fucking the assistant before he got caught and they actually split up over it.
Indeed, same way we're aware of the actual negative BS behind it.
Fifteen Hours has the protagonist and his regiment come from a fairly pleasant agri-world. Great story too.
The Imperium is a scaled-up and hammed-up parody of our own world. Most citizens, in terms of sheer numbers, live in India-tier shitholes on subsistence standards of living, but the Imperium is gonna show their equivalent of a modern corn farm in Kansas. The latter isn't the galactic norm, but it's not unheard of by any means.
Of all the generic space marines to bitch about getting a model the one that leads the smash hit game everyone including normies love is not one of them. And they already made him a model for the board game so this is just them repackaging him without the termagants and other bits.
In the states, Space Marine the board game sold for $39.99 at Target. It came with Titus and 20 termagants.
Cool is extremely subjective but who else are any of the normies this is aimed at going to actually give a fuck about? The nigger? The chink? Leandros? The sergeant who died from a bomb that didn't even damage his armor or hurt titus and co who were standing 10ft away? Nemeroth?
When you want to sell tie-in merch, you want it to be recognizable and iconic. Consumers are going to recognize Titus the main character, not the dozens of forgettable, interchangeable NPCs.
Just wait until you see what their giant flying titan is named...
They at least need to give us a model of that badass-looking Chaplain so everyone can use him as a tactical rock for Titus to stand on.
I was not trolling and had not seen any in the dawn of war games or space marine 1 and 2 which were my primary experience with WH40k.
For some reason they've kept the chainsaw bayonets stuck to 30k/Horus Heresy Marines, they will probably release more tacticool primaris bullshit before even thinking of giving them to them.
